{"id":7382,"date":"2008-07-22T15:49:47","date_gmt":"2008-07-22T15:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bishop_alan_wilson_finds_brian_mclarens_lambeth_talk_a_tour_de_force\/"},"modified":"2008-07-22T15:49:47","modified_gmt":"2008-07-22T15:49:47","slug":"bishop_alan_wilson_finds_brian_mclarens_lambeth_talk_a_tour_de_force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=7382","title":{"rendered":"Bishop Alan Wilson finds Brian Mclaren&#39;s Lambeth talk &#34;a Tour de Force&#34;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Something needs to be done \u201d\u201d we need to get this right. This is not a job for commissions and programmes, but for example and engagement. This generation is increasngly orphaned by the manifest failures of conventional religion, science, government, technology, consumerism. We can reorientate our actvities towards our neighbours \u201d\u201d bring good news, hope, gentleness, creativity and respect.<\/p>\n<p>I am impressed by the logic of Brian\u2019s argument. It sheds light on why the fastest growing Church of England congregations, by and large, are Cathedrals. Following it up would involve reimaging our context in a more realistic, low-key, creative and rooted direction. I think I&#8217;m up for it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bishopalan.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/evangelism-getting-real.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something needs to be done \u201d\u201d we need to get this right. This is not a job for commissions and programmes, but for example and engagement. This generation is increasngly orphaned by the manifest failures of conventional religion, science, government,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=7382\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,48,74,389,635,440,64,184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-evangelism-and-church-growth","category-lambeth-2008","category-parish-ministry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}